David Harley Words & Music

[There is also a version in the can with a much more Chicago blues feel, recorded with Dave Higgen. Hopefully, there’ll be a full album by Xmas.]

Nothing to do with the Spice Girls or reality TV: I’ve had the basic idea for this kicking around for at least 30 years, but I finally put the words into something resembling a final version. This is a single take recording: I’ll hopefully come back to it when I’ve learned it properly, but this is Harley in country blues mode, so it’s never likely to be particularly polished… The guitar is a D’Angelico archtop, but it doesn’t sound particularly jazzy because, since it was done in one take, the acoustic sound is mixed in with the DI-d electric sound. I rather like it, but your mileage may vary.

Words and music, such as it is, by me.

Backup:

I came home last night, just about the break of day
She’s got her suitcase packed, just about to make her getaway

She said, well now baby, who do you think you are
You stayed out all night, don’t know what you came back for

Five long years my baby walked the line
Now she’s gone, long gone, since she found out I was playing double time

She said, well now baby, who do you think you are
You stayed out all night, don’t know what you came back for

Down at the courthouse, fell down on my knees
Said I love you babe, won’t you forgive me please?

She said, well now baby, who do you think you are
You stayed out all night, don’t know what you came back for

Wrote her a letter, wrote it on my knees
Babe I learned my lesson, won’t you come back please?

She wrote back,
Well now baby, who do you think you are
Got my eyes wide open, don’t know what I’d come back for

David Harley